Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

1. Introduction
Gilad Padva, Nurit Buchweitz

Part I. Straight Intimacies and Heterosexual Guilty Pleasures

2.
Fifty Shades of Guilty Pleasure
Sara K. Howe, Antonnet Renae Johnson

3. Vitalities and Fatalities in Intimate Relationships in Etgar Keret’s Graphic Narratives
Nurit Buchweitz

4. Intimacy in Crisis: Family Dysfunction in Israeli Literature for Preschool Readers
Einat Baram Eshel

Part II. Adapted Intimacies and Spectacular Obscenities

5. An Intimate Adaptation
Jelena Borojević

6. Fellini’s Satyricon: Bacchanalias and Sexual Politics in Imperial Rome and Modern Italy
José Maurício Saldanha-Álvarez

7. Reimagining the 1970s: Romance, Sleaze and Obscenity in Bombay Cinema
Ankita Deb

Part III. Queer Intimacies and Politicized Attractions

8. David Wojnarowicz’s Poetics: Magnifying Homosexual Male Bodies, Exalting Queer Intimacies
Mélanie Grué

9. Marco Berger: Homoaffectivity through Cinematic Queered Continuums
William Daniel Holcombe

10. Hidden Desires: Cinematic Representations of Man/Boy Love
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

11. Girl Meets Girl: Sexual Sitings in Lesbian Romantic Comedies
Kelly McWilliam

Part IV. Gendered Intimacies and Feminized Carnalities

12. Controlling the Mind for the Body: The Deintellectualization of Women within the American Gothic
Matthew E. Martin

13. Beyond the Duality of Intimacy and Intimidation: La double vie de Véronique and the Reclamation of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Ethical Kernel after 1989
Man-tat Terence Leung

Part V. Interracial Intimacies and Ethnicized Intercourse

14. Utopian Transgressions: Intimate Relationships across Social Boundaries
Miri Talmon

15. The Epistemology of the Ethnic Closet: Interracial Intimacy and Unconditional Love in Ian Iqbal Rashid’s A Touch of Pink

Gilad Padva

Part VI. Advertised Intimacies and Eroticized Pop Music

16. Romantic Relationships and Sexuality in Hebrew Advertisements 1967–1977
Avivit Agam Dali

17. Vulgar Lyrics in Nigeria’s Twenty-First-Century Popular Music: St. Janet and Olamide (Badoo)
Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale, Dauda Adermi Busari, Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale, Olugbenga Samuel Falase

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Culture and Gender